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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1934.

SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC

PROBLEM FICTION

STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY-

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She enrolls in a secretariat school and later

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Howard's return · Whe drawing And in that stuffy old Booth entirely new era bogun for women. Jano vellemently, "Tho When HOWARD JACKBON, young grolay very near.

house!"

They're free to choose their, work, come is because I intend to make professor, comes to Marburg, JANE TERRY,

She had been busy all day in

to live their lives as they want to, her give up my inheritance, so that Übe prettiest girl in town, determines to wa

Marriage is only one of many I can do something on my own. possible careers and one of the It's wicked for her to be manag- feast desirable. A woman has a tag that money when I could double right to bear children if shot, over and over again-but sho wants to outside of marriage--" doesn't believe

a woman knows anything about business, anything Amy felt far more at home with at all, the old idiot! I'm losing this Jane who ranted wild Ideas. chance after chance" she quiet- "Oh stuff," she said. "Every childed herself suddenly. She had not has the right to the protection of meant to tell anyone this. "And the ordinary civilized conventions. heavens, she said. I must hurry A woman may do as she pleases back. Sho's going to have the law- about marrying, but she certainly yer come up. So nice to see you, shouldn't bring a child into the Amy, and your now house.” world for its shame and dishonour.

at Marburg and they return.

MISS ROSA TERRY, Jane's aunt, contes toare AMY,

CHAPTER XII ·

WILA

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"Janel" Janel"

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she cried,

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ha heart. Howard, however, falls in love the house, and had got the living Amy became subtly aware that with AMY LOWE, Jane's best friend, Jane, room in order and was walking Jane had known all the time Angered, tries to force Howard Intờ. -engagement and, when this fails, leaves for slowly home with her sowing bag of her coming back to Marburg New York, declaring the will never return. swinging on her arm when, as she and where she was going to live, was enjoying the becomes private secretary to the president of turned the first corner, she saw also that Jane the Kandel Heal Estate company. She met coming toward her a young woman contrast between her own appear- ROGER THORPE, head of the company's

дв fashionably dressed to ance and Amy's. But it didn't rental department, who shows her attentiora. 80

Amy and Howard are married. They make be unfamiliar to Marburg and yet matter much for here was Jane ittelr home in, a nearby town for a Then Howard a hired to teach in the collezeit was-it couldn't be, but it and they were walking and tolk- ing together. And Jane was all "Ob-right—all right, only different

hard perhaps and ungettable, but For a flicker of a second she certainly not unhappy. wasn't sure that Jane was going "Misa Rosa told "mo_how won- Miss Rosa Bald slowly, "Jane to speak, but she did and put out derfully you've succeeded; Jane. never made it-up with you ?” her hand as to a stranger. "Oh-She says you make heaps of money "She's never written me except It's Amy!" she said in a high and have an apartment and look one letter," Amy told her, "just clear voice without expression. -right in here. The work in the after she left. I hoped she was But Amy's welcome tumbled hall isn't quite finished, but tho having too good a time,"

out: "But I'm so glad to see you. living room is, I did it to-day." Miss Rosa settled herself for When did you come? Miss Rosa Amy flung open the door." oration, "1 reckon I was wrong told me the other day you never Jane' hesitated: "Is there anyone about Jane, Amy, always thinking came back to Marburg-Jane, there?" she asked and Amy knew she was lazy and conceited and dear-you look so stunning, you're that Jane was afraid Howard pig-headed and troublesome. Evi simply gorgeous!"

might be there. She didn't want dently a she needed was another.

She had been to see Howard. Sho didn't wan't Jane ked that. environment. She's doing very struggling with her own foolings. to say his name. So perhaps sho well, very

well. Indeed. Works She had meant not to see Amy, or wasn't quite so splendid and care. for A big real estate firm and speak to her. but now that Amy free as she'd seemed at first. makes close to $60 a week, and had, as it were, seized her and "There's no one," said Amy, and against my better judgment she's was so open In her admiration, went in ahead, Jane following, taken herself non apartment and Jane was rather pleased. Besides "It's rather nice," said Jane, after has a maid, and gets along all Amy had on a gingham work a pause. "A pity you haven't right. The head man-he's named dress that was neither new nor grasscloth on the walls, Instead of Kandel-seems to think a lot of fresh. -Jane could condescend. that paper. I have a sort of nat- her ability. Jane's a real business "What are you doing yourself?" aral grasscloth in my apartment woman. She doesn't write to no she naked. "I just came down It makes a avanderful background very often, but I keep tabs on her for the night. Aunt Rosa didn't for pictures, and it has an inter-|| a litle, other ways. I feel I ought expect me. I came on business.festing texture. I have silk cur- Nobody told me you were Intains, not scrim. And I've picked come town."

up some prints and etchings and But I'm going to live here some good old bita of brass and now, in Miss Rachel Booth's old copper."

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"She doesn't want me to go hour. I haven't moved in yet. "It must be lovely," said Amy, there, and she won't come home, I've been working there all day "Do you live all alone or-7 though I've begged her. In her getting it straight. Oh,

Jane. Jane swung round at her sharp- vacations she goes travelling, if came back and look at it. It's go. "Yes, I do,

Of course I have you please. But I've settled it in ling to be sweet. I'd love you to my maid. But it's only the pro my own mind that Jane's bound see it."

vincial mind that sees anything

to do what she wants to and the Jane walked along, beside her. Wrong in a self-supporting woman less I erasy her the better we get very straight, very elegant in her Bving alone in these days." along. She's not like most girls, brown tailored suit, pale TOND

"I was only asking for informa- not in her heart, nor in her brain, terepe de chine blouse, her

thinion.

It certainly never occurred and-it can't be helped. I never brown but with pale pink roses and to me that there should be any- was much good at handling her, brown velvet bow. She raised her thing wrong about it, Jane, and now that she's done so well eyebrows in pity. "You're going wist my words."

Don't

EP

for herself she's independent of to live in Marburg, in this awful, Jane stormed on: "What no one me, in every way almost, and I hick place? How terrible for you. here appreciates is that there's an won't break the very little thread

that holds her to me if I can help it. She's only

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that's

pretty young. She might some time need me. She thinks

whe knows it all-hut I dobt ."

"Don't you think she'll ever come honie? Imlas her."

"Oh, I daresay if the nation struck her she might come. but I've seen no signs of it yet."

After Miss Rosp left. Amy sat thinking about Jape. There seemed no help for it. Jane was out of her life and she must ne- cept the loss. She would like so much to see Jane as a business woman. She wished her unend- tag success, "She'll have it, too." she thought, "Jane was always clover, and there was a strength in her under her wild ideas and foolishness! Oh, I do hope she does wonderful things. I do hope

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Before the house was entirely ready for it, Amy's furniture) arrived, and then began a tedious follow-up process, taking room by room as soon as she could get the workmen out and putting that room in order, then closing the door against dust and dirt. She hadn't marked the boxes und barrels by their contents, so $1.9 they were opened they invariably held the things she couldn't use at once. And there were new cur- tain rods to be bought and put up. None of the old ones were the right size. This meant new cur

του. When she wasn't

in the garden Amy found | herself sowing homs and casings in lengths of scrim and dotted swiss and organdy which seemed innumerable. And the

time for

Amy caught her arm. "Jane," Children don't zak to bo born. she cried, "don't go like this. I've They're helpless."

missed you so. Dear Jane-can't "Of course you'd think that sim-we bo friends again?" But she ply because you've always refused knew it was useless to ask. Jane to go with the times."

had turned to stone. Jane had not Amy suddenly wanted to laugh forgotten, or forgiven.

nt the absurdity of arguing with Jane on the subject of feminiam at practically the firat moment of their meeting.

"You're like Aunt Roan," went on

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"Goodbye," said Jane, "I must)

I've nothing to say to you I didn't want to see you at all."

(Continued on Page 10.)

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